@candlesan01: The Prophet Skeram is the first raid boss in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, a raid instance in the original vanilla WoW. I focused on Skeram's two signature abilities, Mind Control and the Mirror Image for this video. His Arcane Explosion was intended to be general raid-wide damage that would be overwhelming if he ever split into 5. His Earth Shock was a light nod towards the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj favoring guilds that had Nature Resist, but since this is the first boss of the instance we didn't want to have a hard Nature Resist fight right off the bat. #gamedesign #wow #blizzardstory
MAN! These videos are outstanding! Would love to interview you someday. Thanks for all you've done for us.
2026-09-07 19:42:02
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Khazrachan :
I'm probably alone here, but I much prefer this kind of boss design than the absolute mess and chaos we have on retail.
2026-09-07 19:30:02
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Bob 🇧🇻🇪🇦 :
Can't wait untill Warcraft Immortal is announced 🥰
2026-09-07 21:49:01
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Sans :
you will never mentally outpace 40 players who want purple loot
2026-09-08 15:24:50
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ahdamn :
it's lame that people take this dudes one quote and forget all the insane bosses he made.
wyatt is a legend
2026-09-07 22:26:42
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Cozz :
I think it actually makes the design stronger if players can use creative methods to identify the copies
2026-09-08 05:16:27
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Jacob :
These breakdowns are so good.
2026-09-07 19:10:09
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ben :
i thought they MC the buffed MC target to kill the boss lol
2026-09-23 12:46:53
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The Chrysalis Collective :
The pride and joy of my wow career was achieving something other guilds hadn't even considered on the fight Dark Animus in Throne of Thunder. We had a healer that was frankly not good enough to heal the fight with the raid composition most guilds relied on to make the rather tight dps check at the time in 10 man heroic. I asked a very simple question: what if we just didn't dps the adds at all and funneled everything straight into the boss's face? Sat there for hours into the night doing math in Google docs to figure out a way to extend the duration of the fight as long as possible without having to dps adds directly. We figured out that we could use demonology warlocks doom spell and a brewmaster tank's vengeance mechanic to do absurd dps to the boss by stacking adds together. We ended up being the first guild in the world to kill it with what became known as the zerg strategy.
2026-09-07 22:11:24
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Issy :
nice to see the design behind this
2026-09-24 10:21:02
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saleh Alghamdi :
A real boss developer
2026-09-24 18:07:35
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DarkXenoGaming :
I curse you for this boss
2026-09-23 13:30:48
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wooya1208 :
Pirate software is going to watch these videos and start taking small parts for his own history.
2026-09-08 02:11:39
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Some sort of goat :
The fact that “Thing going towards boss before it splits still goes towards after the split” is STILL happening in Midnight (Lothraxion) is crazy
2026-09-07 20:34:17
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PootsMcGee :
Isn’t this also an example of the technical side of the game not being able to fully support the design vision? Most of the issues you describe are implementation details.
2026-09-07 19:13:33
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Psyduck :
But that’s great game design
2026-09-07 21:01:32
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Quest :
Damn.... he said vent... met a lot of good people there... and had my ears blown tf off! if you know you know
2026-09-08 03:04:22
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Tuch :
the mechanics are crazy for its time, like you really thought outside the norm at the time for bosses
2026-09-08 11:40:47
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Own the money 🇸🇬 :
so when does the april fools end?
2026-09-08 03:56:06
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Hybrid :
if it's a real bug, hehe
2026-09-07 21:36:43
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Nexxy :
Spill the tea about classic+ 😭😭😭
2026-09-07 21:49:43
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J. :
Hey why do games suck now? I spend most of my gaming time playing "retro" games instead of playing new games
2026-09-08 00:33:41
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TommyPickleJuice :
If you mark the boss with a raid mark, it stays on the real skeram when he splits
2026-09-07 22:27:31
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divine_daniel21 :
I always love these videos
2026-09-07 20:29:51
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